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The "American" mile and foot and subsequent inch system is based upon the geodesic measure of the Earth at specific latitudes. The 5,280 ft US mile is approximately 1 minute of arc at approximately 30 degrees north or south latitude on the Earth. The exact figures is 87.701 US feet in 1 arc second at exactly 30 degrees north or south, when rounded upwards to 88 for simplification and multiplied by 60 (circular arcs are more efficiently calculated and tracked in a base 12 system) you get 5,280. Hence, a US mile, which is actually just a slight adjustment of the ancient mile and feet systems. A US nautical mile is exactly 1 arc minute at exactly 0 degrees north or south, AKA an equatorial mile.
What Americans did not adopt however was the intermediate slices of the mile, such as the stadia 660 feet or 1/8th of the mile exactly, or 440 feet which is exactly 1/12th of the mile and more base than the stadia. Instead we Amerifats use the 1/16th measure which is exactly 100 yards or 330 feet, and we also use the usual 12 inches to a foot like many of the ancients as well. Why 30 N or S, on a globe or even a flat plane world you can numerically divide the circles or semi circles into 90 (and and 180) hense 30 is a base division of that system neatly and a latitude where more people live in both hemispheres. You should also study numerology and realize that 5,280 is functionally 528 which is functionally 6 in the 369 system of math. The ancients (Romans mostly, the retards of the ancient world, lesser than the Greeks and Egyptians) used the mil system or 1,000 thus 10 base system on top of the older 12 base systems resulting in the word "mile" even though it was not a 10 base division like the older systems (Greek and Egyptian). Most fellow Amerifats are bad at esoteric history and maths in general and do not understand why we use the mile or where it comes from (geodesic actual measure of the Earth, both ancient and contemporary).
